47 ordspråk av Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov föddes den April 22nd 1899 och dog den 2 July 1977 - Russian-US writer
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 A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. |
| A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection |
| A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. |
| A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. |
| abruptly provided a retroactive clarification of certain oddities of behavior on his part. |
| Caress the detail, the divine detail |
| Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. |
| Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. |
| For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. |
| Genius is an African who dreams up snow |
| Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . . |
| I confess, I do not believe in time. |
| I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is |
| I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. |
| Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. |
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